A demonstration led by Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) beat another record of data transfer between the United States and Latin America, reaching rates of 97 Gb/s during the annual Supercomputing conference this year in Salt Lake City, between November 13 and 18.

In order to carry out the demonstration, two servers were installed in São Paulo, one in the Scientific Computing Center of Unesp and another in the academic network of São Paulo (ANSP), and one in the Academic Point Exchange in Miami (Ampath), coordinated by Florida International University (FIU). The experiment was made possible by the new connections of 200 Gb/s between São Paulo and Miami, activated in July this year and maintained by the AmLight consortium, which manages connections between the United States and Latin America for teaching and research purposes.

The Unesp Scientific Computing Core, through the São Paulo Research and Analysis Center (Sprace), is one of the computational grids that contributes to the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) project, which analyzes the path of particles produced by collisions in the largest The LHC of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). This project was essential for astronomy, with the discovery of the subatomic particle Higgs boson and the composition of dark matter.

The high performance network infrastructure prepared for Supercomputing, referred to as SCInet, was possible thanks to the performance of more than 200 volunteers in 18 countries.

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